BED HEAD Ceramic Wave Artist Deep Waver for Beachy Waves, 15x9x7 Inch

This iron exceeded my expectations when I received it. I have long hair past my shoulders which is extremely thick, course, and curly. Some areas actually are wirey rather than curly. I had already washed and just straightened my hair with a vent brush and blow dryer the day before (I can't wash every day). Directions said to mist your hair with Bed Head hairspray (of course) mine was already sprayed with Frizz Ease hair spray. I had not straightened my hair with a flat iron prior to using the deep waver, I had as stated only used the hair dryer and vent brush which straightens my hair but does not make it smoothe by any means at all. There is a pamphlet with the iron that says it's a styling guide. It is basic directions. Iron has 3 settings. Low ~ For Fine Hair, Medium ~ For Normal to Medium Hair, & High For Thick, or Course Hair. I set the iron on High for my hair type. Breifly put the hair dryer to my hair again with the vent brush to loosen my hair up as I had had it pulled up for work and there were lines in my hair from the bands used. I then pulled the top part of my hair up on top of my head, and began using the waver on the underlying layers of hair first. I used another reviewers tip and put the flatter portion of the iron on the top side of my hair and moved the waver over it section by section. It took me about 20 minutes to do my entire head which is even faster than using the Instyler (Works as good as the old school Chi Irons that got much hotter than the Chi's of today) I also have for straightening. My hair looks amazing! Wavy, but not tacky. I just took a section of my hair ran the brush through it again to smoothe. Started at the root, held for a few seconds and moved down the length of hair. It was easy to even do the back of my head. This iron would be perfect for creating cute little updo's as well. My hair is TOTALLY UNRULY AND VERY DIFFICULT usually requiring me to take close to an hour to make a half way tolerable hairstyle after getting out of the shower. Who has that kind of time each day? Not me! So this is a true blessing at an affordable price. This iron got hot FAST! And made my Do really cute in no time! I'm sold! I may go ahead and get another one so when it wears out in a couple of years. I won't have to worry about tracking down another one :O) Oh yes, some people talked about the size and width of the iron. It is probably about 2.5 inches wide. If you have a bob that is at least jaw length you could use this iron. Just keep in mind after you go over each section you may want to pull on the hair to relax it a bit while it is still hot & your waves won't look too big for your length of hair. I did this to relax the wave that was on my hair part & it worked great. With the rest of my head I let the waves cool completely then fron the underside of my hair ran my fingers through all of my hair to loosen the hair without messing up the outer layer & I came out with smoothe beach wavy hair! So thrilled! Hope this helps everyone!

I was a bit hesitant about this product, as sometimes less expensive products don't work for my hair. I have thick, coarse, long (about three inches above my waist), naturally curly/wavy hair with long layers. This means: (without any product in it) it's not soft, frizzy, with inconsistent curls in some parts and wave in others. And after a night sleeping it's frizzy in the back pretty badly. With this hair it is best to only wash it every other day, so on that 2nd day it looks awful. Also, because it's heavy, it only starts waving at about my ears, then curls towards the bottom.I wanted to find something that would keep it looking pretty much the way it does that first day, when it air dries, but put some wave up a bit higher towards my crown, too. I had been concerned the heat might not be enough, as it's not temperature controlled by specific temperatures. It has a slider that you "dial" towards "low" or "high". Because my hair is so coarse, it takes very high heat to affect it (I normally use 410 on my hair straightener).This product works PERFECTLY. I was able to take it out of the box, use it on my hair, and it looks EXACTLY like it did yesterday after air drying, but with wave all the way up to the top of my head. The only thing I will change when I do it next time is that I will first insert my section of hair and pull it all the way through THEN start waving it. It does say this in the directions (which I read afterwards). That will pull some of the natural curl out first. My hair came out beautiful :)I see some of the reviews mentioned that it was too hard to work but I had no problems at all, and my hands are small - and I'm not freakishly strong or anything. I did use the highest setting, and I would assume that would burn most people's hair, but I'm Hispanic and my hair absolutely will not curl with anything less than very high heat. I had to hold the iron on each wave a bit longer than with my straightener, but not a LONG time by any stretch.Overall I am VERY pleased with this purchase, and will use it often. I would definitely purchase again, and even recommended it to my hair stylist daughter :)